back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 106

(It was a shock. I thought Chidao’s research was just me alone, but I didn’t expect that there were horse-drawn train fragments in Let the Bullets Fly. And there are also fragments of horse-drawn trains in the book "Zai Zhi Tian Xia" I read recently. Related ideas, I am very depressed. But the chapters that have already been written, it is impossible to delete the large paragraphs, and Chidao is a very important thing that I carefully arranged, which is related to the future hegemony. The locomotive was removed, and the eunuchs pulled the carriages with ropes to run on the rails. It’s a big joke, but I never thought that there are horse-drawn trains in foreign countries. I’m ignorant, and I lost. But Chidao, it’s really the Qin Dynasty It is a great initiative, and interested book lovers can study it. It is much more advanced than those horse-drawn carriages in the United Kingdom and the United States. Don’t underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, sometimes you have to marvel, the brains of the ancients are no better than modern people Small. Depressed, please recommend a collection...)
The thousand or so students below all shook their heads. Also, most of these students were poor, and they signed up for the Royal University because of free tuition, board and lodging.If there are those who come for the emperor's disciples, there are, but not many.Most of the students are from poor families, but those scholars from rich and noble families don’t bother to learn any strange skills and tricks. They want to hold the Analects of Confucius and talk about "ruling the world with half of the Analects", living in a dream.

No one can deny that Confucianism has promoted society.But if you are afraid of everything, if you pursue it too much, it will backfire.The consequence of superstitious belief in Confucianism is that the literati have misled the country.The fate of Song Dynasty's death and Ming Dynasty's death is still vivid in my mind.

Since the founding of Dashun for a hundred years, the number of poor people has been increasing. The root cause lies in the land.The land of the Dashun Dynasty has been increasing, but the land controlled by the court has become less and less.

This is all because the Dashun Dynasty implemented the land equalization system, which was originally excellent.It affirms the ownership and possession of land, reduces land disputes, and is conducive to the reclamation of unowned wasteland, thus playing a positive role in the recovery and development of agricultural production.

The implementation of the land equalization system, and the reduction of the new rent adjustment associated with it, and the implementation of the three-head system (that is, five families have one neighbor head, five neighbors have one mile head, five mile head one party head. Responsibilities are to check household registration, supervise farming, collect rent and transfer, collect corvee and military service. The three chiefs enjoy certain preferential treatment, and can be exempted from one to three official services. The three chiefs system is also another peak in the development of the clan system), which is conducive to Dependent peasants got rid of the control of powerful clans and transformed into state-registered households, which greatly increased the number of self-cultivating small farmers controlled by the government, guaranteed the source of taxes and labor, and strengthened the recognition of the imperial court by the people of Dashun.

Dashun Chaotian Law clearly stipulates: "The above-mentioned middle-aged men and middle-aged men shall each receive [-] mu of land and Yongye [-] mu of land. Old men and disabled men shall receive [-] mu of land, and widows and concubines shall receive [-] mu of land; If these people are the heads of households, each of them will receive [-] mu of Yongye land and [-] mu of land for the mouth. Miscellaneous households will receive the land as ordinary people. Industrial and commercial enterprises and government households will receive half of the land from the common people. Taoists and monks will receive [-] mu of land, and nuns will receive [-] mu of land. [-] acres of land for women's crowns. In addition, ordinary women, trilogy, slaves and maidservants are not entitled to land.

From the first rank to the eighth and ninth ranks, the clerks were reduced from sixty hectares of Yongyetian to two hectares.Scattered officials of the fifth rank and above are subject to the same position as officials in Yongyetian.In addition, bureaucrats at all levels and the government also received varying amounts of official land and public land. The land rent of the official land was used as a supplement to the bureaucrat's salary, and the land rent of the public land was used as the cost of the government office.The ownership of these two kinds of land belongs to the state.

Yongye land and gift land owned by nobles and bureaucrats can be sold freely.People who migrate and are unable to bury are allowed to sell Yongye land.Move to Kuan Township, where there are few people and more land, and those who are sold as houses and mansions are allowed to sell and divide the land.The amount of purchased land shall not exceed the statutory amount that should be accounted for by the individual. "

But at this time and at that time, the land equalization system was suitable for the first 20 years of the Dashun Dynasty, but it did not mean that it was suitable for the next few hundred years.With the improvement of productivity and the development of the commodity economy in the Dashun Dynasty, land mergers were unprecedentedly prevalent, and public land was continuously transformed into private land through various methods. The fields controlled by the imperial court became increasingly scarce, and the imperial court had no land to grant land.At the same time, the imperial court extorted violently from the farmers who had originally granted the land. The farmers couldn't bear it, and either fled one after another, or sold their land and took refuge in landlords as tenant farmers.In the previous Dashun Dynasty, the agricultural tax was ten and three, which seemed to be a lot, and it was also very reasonable.But there are not many farmers who actually have land, and the benefits they get are very few.The real pressure is on those tenants, who not only have to pay the court's taxes, but also rent.One mu of land originally only had two hundred catties of grain, but as much as [-]% had to be handed over.However, both the imperial court and the tenant rents are fixed rents. In a good year, it is fine. If it is a bad year, what will the tenants pay the rent?Although Da Shun Dynasty seems to be very peaceful now, in fact, the root of the conflict has already been buried, waiting to ferment.If there are no insightful and courageous people to guide, I am afraid that another dynasty that will be drowned in the peasant uprising will be Dashun.

In addition, Dashun has no population policy. When the country was founded, the population was only more than 2000 million households, and the total number of people was only 7000 to 3000 million.But by the time of Hong Xiang, the population had surged to more than 4000 million and nearly [-] million households, and even a small population would exceed [-] million.This is still the registered population and does not represent those places where the population is hidden.

With more people and less land, coupled with such serious land annexation, social contradictions are unprecedentedly prominent.Most of the poor children below the podium are from such backgrounds.Forced to make a living, they entered Chang'an City and worked everywhere.If a well-meaning craftsman takes him in and takes him in as an apprentice, he will be able to earn a living.But as an apprentice, he has to serve his master for a hundred years and take care of his family, which is also uncomfortable.

Those in the classroom are not very lucky. No one wants them to work, so they come to the Royal University to make a living.If you can learn a skill, that would be great.You call these people, where do you have any insight, know what Chidao is?Even if it is a post road, ordinary people like them dare not go.On weekdays, they only walked the official road.

Seeing that no one answered, Lu Chengqi drew two tracks on the blackboard, both paved with sleepers.Similar to modern train tracks, but much larger, just big enough for a horse-drawn carriage to fit inside.

Once this picture is drawn, even if Lu Chengqi's painter is not good, he can still get a general idea.At this time, a student in the hall suddenly called out: "Your Majesty, I have seen this... thing before!"

Hearing this, Lu Chengqi turned around and said in surprise, "Have you seen it?"

The student had a square face, dark skin, and simple eyes.He stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I am from Henan. This thing is in our mountain, and there are too many of it. The old people in the village often say that this is something left by Qin Shihuang, but it has been so long. It's all a bit rotten..." As he spoke, his voice became softer and weaker, and he seemed not very confident.

Lu Chengqi said excitedly: "That's right, the place where Qin Shihuang stayed, Henan, is also right. Tell me more, do you know what's the use of this thing?"

The student stuttered at first, and his speech was not very fluent.But no one laughed at him. After all, Lu Chengqi, the emperor, was always asking him questions, and it was too late for others to envy him. How could he laugh at him?
After saying such a paragraph, the student's sentences became much smoother, and he replied: "Your Majesty, I am just a mountain dweller. If I could not live in the mountains, I would not have come to Chang'an City. This thing We can't even call it by name, now I know it's called Chidao, and I don't know what it's for..."

Lu Chengqi was slightly disappointed, but he immediately said: "It's good that you know so much. Sit down. Let me talk about this Chidao, which was invented during the period of Qin Shihuang. It has extremely diverse uses. During the Qin Dynasty, the Qin State Why can the army be invincible? It’s all because they have this way! During the Qin Dynasty, there was no shortage of horses, and there were countless chariots and chariots. Even our Dashun Dynasty couldn’t match them. On this galloping road, one can gallop. Traveling thousands of miles a day is not a problem, what's more, one can travel from Chang'an City to Youzhou City in one day and one night, and the duration of a thousand or two hundred miles is like flying."

Hearing this, not only the students in the class, but also Yang Daoqi, Shen Kuo, Su Song, and Tang Xun who were listening to the class were stunned.The students don't understand this speed, but they do!Bing is very fast, if the Dashun Dynasty can achieve this speed, wouldn't it mean that the government orders are smooth, and even the rebellion cannot be started?
(End of this chapter)